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===2021 | ===2021: [https://news.gsu.edu/2021/08/30/taxing-tobacco-and-e-cigarettes-at-same-rate-will-harm-young-users-new-study-finds/ Taxing Tobacco and E-Cigarettes at Same Rate Will Harm Young Users, New Study Finds]=== | ||
*A National Institutes of Health-funded study by nine health economists, including Georgia State University’s Michael Pesko, suggests the Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021 before Congress may not benefit public health – particularly among youth – because it is likely to induce substitution towards more lethal combustible tobacco products. | *A National Institutes of Health-funded study by nine health economists, including Georgia State University’s Michael Pesko, suggests the Tobacco Tax Equity Act of 2021 before Congress may not benefit public health – particularly among youth – because it is likely to induce substitution towards more lethal combustible tobacco products. | ||
===2021: [https://wset.com/news/nation-world/experts-proposed-e-cigarette-tax-could-drive-teens-to-more-harmful-products Experts: Proposed e-cigarette tax could drive teens to more harmful products]=== | |||
*“We estimate that the federal bill as currently written would cause two in three teens that no longer use e-cigarettes due to the e-cigarette tax to smoke cigarettes instead, which would paradoxically increase tobacco-related harm over not having changed the tax rates at all,” Pesko said. | |||
===2021: [https://web.archive.org/web/20210910222605/https://gazette.com/news/taxing-e-cigarettes-could-have-adverse-consequences/article_ffa1324a-2322-5f84-a624-1ea9110f97d8.html Taxing e-cigarettes could have adverse consequences]=== | |||
*The authors reported that a tax on electronic nicotine delivery systems reduces the likelihood that the youth will buy the products in retail stores. However, hiking up the prices of vaping products runs the risk of pushing young people toward cheaper alternatives, such as regular cigarettes. | |||
===2021: [https://filtermag.org/vape-taxes-increase-smoking/?fbclid=IwAR1-XO6IuZI2l4ydWqGZc99smyG8xX4DuP3X29PWBTSoEWBfw_BB0r1zlcc To Increase Smoking Rates Among Young Adults, Keep Hiking Vape Taxes]=== <!--T:42--> | ===2021: [https://filtermag.org/vape-taxes-increase-smoking/?fbclid=IwAR1-XO6IuZI2l4ydWqGZc99smyG8xX4DuP3X29PWBTSoEWBfw_BB0r1zlcc To Increase Smoking Rates Among Young Adults, Keep Hiking Vape Taxes]=== <!--T:42--> | ||
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